California · Private foundation
Harman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 125
- Grants FY2024
- 122
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 120 to 130
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Harman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 121 | $2.2M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 122 | $2.2M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 130 | $2.6M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 130 | $2.7M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 120 | $3.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shakespeare Theatre | $1,610,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Spur Local Inc | $308,500 | 4 | 13% |
| Inner-City Arts | $258,786 | 5 | 2% |
| The Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc | $230,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Year Up Inc | $230,000 | 5 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $210,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mott Haven Academy Charter School | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Life Pieces to Masterpieces | $197,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Arab-American Family Support Center Inc | $195,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 179 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 173 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Hattie M Strong Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC
How this is measured
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About Harman Family Foundation
- How much does Harman Family Foundation give?
- Harman Family Foundation reported 125 grants totaling $2,243,326 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 120 and 130 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Harman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Education (24%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Harman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Shakespeare Theatre ($1.6M), Spur Local Inc ($309k), Inner-City Arts ($259k).
- Does Harman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is Harman Family Foundation based?
- Harman Family Foundation is based in CA.
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